-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mark,
On 1/11/2011 11:41 AM, Mark Thomas wrote: > On 11/01/2011 16:37, Christopher Schultz wrote: >> Kevin, >> >> On 1/10/2011 5:21 PM, Kevin Murray wrote: >>> I currently have a functioning Tomcat 5.5.25 server installed on 64-bit >>> Linux and my goal is to advance to version Tomcat version 5.5.31 >>> Is the a method akin to applying a patch to my existing Tomcat 5.5.25 >>> install which will advance it to version 5.5.31 ? >> >> You could probably just unzip a new binary package on top of your old >> one: anything new would be updated, but you might also inadvertently >> overwrite customizations you've made to configuration files, etc. >> >> It's best to take Pid's advice and do a side-by-side. The advantage of >> that is being able to roll-back with very little effort. > > Look into using CATALINA_HOME/CATALINA_BASE. With that configured, it > took me < 5 mins to upgrade the ASF test Jira instance from 6.0.29 to > 7.0.6 and most of that was waiting for Jira to start (twice because I > forgot to clear out the work directory the first time). +1000 *Everyone* should use CATALINA_BASE, even if they aren't running multiple instances, for just this one excellent example. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk0sjnsACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PCezQCgiAwe8QKoarmwL3uGnHvvJIJh PKwAmwTjSQdokMEUf3eT78AE9JpxGBEW =9O+/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
